The ladies masters athletes from the SMTFA competing at the Flash Athletic Meet in Oct at the Bishan Stadium.

5/21/2014

The bull of retraining PMETs

The pathetic plight of the PMETs did not happen overnight and is
affecting a large pool of our PMETs. Many of them are highly qualified
and experienced in their areas of expertise. Now we can hear daily
diatribes and garbages about how these PMETs are not fit or did not have
the skill sets to be reemployed in their fields of expertise and their
jobs have to be taken over by foreigners. So the only remedy is to
retrain them. I will touch on these two fallacies here, the lack of
skill sets of PMETs and the retraining.

There is this myth that the foreigners brought in to replace our
experience PMETs have the experienced and skill sets to do the job that
the PMETs have been doing as the incumbent. As the incumbent he is
suddenly not fit for the job? How come? And the successor, where is this
turkey from and what skill sets and experience that he possesses to be
able to do the job that the incumbent no longer is able to do? Think?
Even if the successor comes with a string of PhDs, it does not mean he
is more able to do the job when the extra qualifications and experience
are irrelevant and redundant. There is no need to hire a nuclear
scientist to be a technician.

Why are the PMETs being replaced by foreigners to easily and cannot find
another similar jobs in the industry when there are hundreds of
thousands of jobs being taken over by foreigners? Think. What the fuck
is happening?

Now the retraining part. A highly experienced professional needs more
training to be employable? What the fuck is that? What kind of training
can one provide to a highly experienced and technically qualified
professional at the peak of his career unless you are talking about a
career change?

What career change, upgrading, promotion to a more senior level? Or
training a professional to downgrade, to become a salesman, a technician
in a completely new field, like a nurse or a counter sales staff or a
cleaner? Why are we wasting the training and experience of these highly
qualified professionals when we can offer hundreds of thousands of jobs
to funny foreign talents with funny qualifications, background and
experience? Are we thinking? Do we know the problem? Are we creating new
problems, wasting our talent and resources to under employ our talents?

It is utterly foolish and idiotic that our local talents who are
educated in the best educational system, universities, acquired a lot of
experienced as senior managers are found no longer fit to do jobs at
the same level and funny foreigners are deemed to be better. And we
consigned our precious human talents, after heavy investments, to the
rubbish dump at the prime of their lives, to retrain them to do non
executive or low level jobs when there are so many good jobs given to
foreigners.

The answer is to ensure that our local talents are gainfully and
appropriate employed according to their expertise and experience. The
foreigners should not be here to displace them. They are here to
complement our shortage in skilled labour. Isn’t that the objective?
Until all our PMETs are fully employed, MOM should not grant any more
EPs to foreigners at the expense of our PMETs.

Are we crazy to retrain our PMETs to lower jobs? It is not a matter of
pride but misallocation of resources. Do they believe that human
resource is our most precious asset? Why are we wasting this precious
resource and keep replacing them with funny foreign talents? This is
like a nation of people self administering poison to kill themselves. It
is economic suicide of a population of professional and talented
people.

This country is really going to the dogs. The leadership is weak and does not have any clues to solving the problems they created with this tsunami of foreigners. Even Tan Cheng Bock said as much. It does not have anything to do with 20/20 hindsight, but a modicum of foresight. Hence you have schemes for retraining you rightly lambasted. Every step they now take or promise to take is a step that should have been taken ages ago. It really is time for change.

Well said RB, as a jobless 65+ yr old living on a CPF-Life, even after meeting the MS in 2003.(it is insufficient) I was asked to re-train from an Asia Pacific area-manager to a road sweeper on account of my age. I personally think JLB Tancho Tan down to their arrogant civil servants, need a total overhaul of their mindset. In regards to our so called flame proof leader, he should be discarded as garbage.

Its a let down. After graduating from our educational system, we are deemed unsuitable in mid career. PAP knows we are being replaced by foreigners, cheaper and certainly not better. Instead of helping us to ensure a level playing field, they give all sorts of bullshits to smoke the people. As citizens, we are asking for hand outs but fair job opportunity. It seems meritocracy is applicable to PAP and the rest is cheaper the better. We have been screwed big time!

The job market is open and free, if you are the sort of increasing rare individual who accepts the fact that the world does not owe you jack shit, especially a living, you will probably prevail and who knows...the fact that you try harder might mean you're going to elevate yourself well above the job you lost.

Losing a job is not the end of the world folks. Millions of people throughout the ages have overcome this "setback".

One thing is for certain, if you depend on the govt to "fix" this, you're going to get a nasty surprise.

The "cubicle jobs" all around the world are disappearing. Even the "cheaper labour" paradigm will be over in a decade or so, You already see this in the financial sector where automation and highly efficient algorithms are replacing human effort and intellect. The next phase of the world's productive economy is going to be based on automation, AI (artificial intelligence) and robotics. Most of the "hot money" in Silicon Valley (and places like Bangalore, India) is being pumped into these areas.

So yeah, eventually nearly everyone's employment in the state the world is in presently, is subject to change.

Yo, stop talking nonsense can? You know I am referring to you. The people are not asking to be raped with their hands tied. The people are asking to be given a fair chance. You know what is a fair chance don't you? Level playing field. Is this asking too much?

By right the citizens should be demanding some kind of positive discrimination against foreigners. What the shit, talking to an ass that cannot understand.

Your status of employment is ultimately up to you. Even if the opposition did win a election, they can't just wave a magic wand to make jobs "appear", and ensure that there are private sector employers willing to PAY for these "miracles" forever.

If your skill are obsolete or no linger marketable, then there's probably no job for you.

Reality is a harsh master. But it's better than being deluded by bullshit.

Lots of PMETs/ uni graduates/ scholars are jobless in first world countries. Its a natural phenomenon for any first world countries or any country that is becoming first world. Why would LKY not become a PMET but risk everything to be an opposition? He knew PMET is a temporary assignment. Learn to develop other skills that have increase in demand but decrease in supply such as con/ ponzi/ exploit foreign workers.

"Why are the PMETs being replaced by foreigners to easily and cannot find another similar jobs in the industry "- Actually they deserved it. Many of them used to be so yayapapaya and went around bullying fresh recruits or low level staff. Sometimes justice is served in a different way.

The truth is Indians, Pinoys are in middle and top managements, they will only have their own as subordinates... So be prepared to have more local PMETs out of jobs... its sad but true... we created our own shit hole....

" How silly can people be when they should limiting competition as best they could in areas that do not need competition. "May 21, 2014 10:17 am

What makes you think they are silly?The net effect drives down manpower costs.So who benefits?Follow the trail of money & profits.This will lead you to the beneficiaries and the real reasons behind the crazy immigration policy.

If you are an owner of a company and obviously you are in business to make money, why would you employ expensive Singaporean PMETs whom you have to pay more than the PMETs from India, PRC or ever the Philippine? Singaporeans are more demanding and maybe have more days of MC than the foreign talents who are easier to control and who will work harder because they are in Singapore with a work permit which can be cancelled if they lose the job and cannot find another.

With that argument, can you not see the reason why Singaporean PMETs are slowly being replaced by their cheaper equivalents from oversea?

PMETs in Sin could indeed lack the talents needed. Had they been just wise, they probably would not be in their predicament now. These PMETs must be the largest group of voters that have chosen the Sin Leadership all these years. The result is, they have helped themselves to get what they wanted.

The retraining is a trap. You trade your experience, skill, knowledge, qualification and most important your dignity as a cheap labour exploited by those so called kind employer, you encountered when you seek for re-employment.

This whole training bullshit is just an excuse / justification by foreigners and the PAP to deny Singaporean PMET good jobs and to put the blame on them, instead of the career ethnic cleansing by foreigners abetted by the PAP. You think those ang mohs, pinoys, india indians got the job because they went through these so called "trainng"? You think that arrogant ang moh will ge here if his goverment let in foreigners to take over his job back in his hone country when he was getting established in his career?

You should get out and live in a western society for awhile. You read negativity into almost everything you see, hastily jumping to its concomitant conclusion which shows off your "Asian insecurity" so well ;-)

I was cracking a joke lah. Everything I wrote in that post is completely imaginary. You are nuts to even give it a moments consideration.

Please consider a visit Colorado, buy some weed (legally) and bong-out. And stay awhile. Soon you will realise that all these so-called "problems" in Singapore, are just the negative figments of your imagination playing tricks on you. i.e. in the grander scheme of things, they are irrelevant and totally unimportant.

The way and rate in which foreigners are replacing Singaporean PMETs in private organisations and companies are so frightening that allowing it to happen is traitorious. It is a selling out of the country and the citizens.

The happenings in the Ang Mo Kio Town Council are outrageous. I am not going to elaborate as the details are everywhere. The similarities be...

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